As shown on Drudge and put on Free Republic: (& if he had .. who could have blamed him..and Sarko looks to be "red-blooded" - but it was taken out of context from a video) Look at the video, - the president was on a higher step and was stepping down -- so he looked down to assure his footing as the woman was walking up the stairs.
Media Matters: Did you hear the one about the sleazy Obama photo? Don't buy it.
A member of Free Republic posted a Reuters photo that the news wire captioned as "U.S. President Barack Obama and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy take their places with junior G8 delegates for a family photo at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy." The Free Republic member invited other members to submit alternative captions for the photo, resulting in dozens of sexually suggestive replies, some using racist epithets.
Thirty minutes later, Internet gossip Matt Drudge promoted the same photo with the headline "Mr. President!" Drudge later revised his headline to read "Second Stimulus Package!" About two hours later, at 5:12 p.m., the The Fox Nation posted the picture along with the headline "Another Stimulus?" ABC News' Jake Tapper posted the photo with the headline "When In Rome...?" Tapper posted this message on Twitter: "that foto of POTUS seeming to be sneaking a leer is misleading, im told - video shows the moment was completely innocent." Drudge subsequently included a link to Tapper's blog post with the headline "ABCNEWS: NO HE DIDN'T ..." A classic example of how the right-wing noise machine works was unfolding before the American people.
This is just the beginning.
Expect every day from here on in until Election Day 2012 to be more of the same, except it's going to get a lot more vicious and meaner.
They'll keep pushing and pushing looking for any chink in the armor that they can find.
Eventually they're going to hit Pay Dirt.
Insert Betty Davis 'Fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy ride' line here.
Posted by: Nyc Labrets | July 11, 2009 at 06:29 AM
Then all of their embarrassing scandals have to continue to be uncovered.
They need to be boycotted, girlcotted, cuckolded etc etc etc.
Posted by: Slugbug | July 11, 2009 at 09:05 AM
I got a wingnut email that said "One million people have signed the thing that Obama doesn't have a birth certificate" - love Pat Boone (that's a paraphrase but anyway..)
Well that new leader of Honduras is Italian and his Constitution says he must be Honduran.
Coup CounterCoup
Posted by: Slugbug | July 11, 2009 at 09:08 AM